Outlook Express Attachments

[Greg Fitzgerald]

I have set up a new identity in Outlook Express 6.0 on XP home
edition. I then copied in some folders from my old OE identity from
another PC onto the XP pc so i could keep all my folders and emails
etc. Now some of my attachments i.e. '.pdf' and '.xls' files shows the
file attachment and the save attacment greyed out, so i can't do
anyting, when i clik on the paper clip. when i double click on email
to open OE dispalys a message
'OE removed acces to the following unsafe attachment in your email'
there must be seeting somewhere for me to change. can anyone help

 

[randwulf57]

Greg Fitzgerald:
Open Outlook Express; click Tools>Options>Security. Uncheck "Do Not Allow
Attachments..." and click OK

 

[Jason Tsang]

If you are sure the attachement is safe...

Goto Tools, Options
Then goto the Security tab
Uncheck "Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could
potentially be a virus"

Cannot Open E-Mail Attachments in OE After You Install SP1
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q329570


Microsoft implemented this change to prevent users from inadvertedly
executing viruses and other bad code within unexpected attachments. It is
ALWAYS a bad to open an unexpected attachment. Verify the sender sent the
attachment before opening.

 

[Ken Blake]

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when i double click on email
to open OE dispalys a message
'OE removed acces to the following unsafe attachment in your email'
there must be seeting somewhere for me to change. can anyone

help


Starting with SP1, Outlook Express does this by default, for any
file type which *can* contain a virus. It's not a virus checker,
doesn't actually check the attachments, and this doesn't mean
that there actually is a virus there.

Such attachments *are* very risky. You often see advice not to
open attachments from people you don't know. I think that that's
one of the most dangerous pieces of advice you see around,
because it implies that it's safe to do the opposite--open
attachments from friends and relatives. But many viruses spread
by sending themselves to everyone in the infected party's address
book, so attachments received from friends are perhaps the *most*
risky to open.

Personally I never open executable attachments at all, except
from a *very* few trusted sources, and then only when I'm
expecting them. But if you want to remove this safeguard, it's
easy to do so: go to Tools | Options, and on the security tab,
uncheck "Do not allow attachments..."

 

[Grant]

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Starting with SP1, Outlook Express does this by default, for any
file type which *can* contain a virus. It's not a virus checker,
doesn't actually check the attachments, and this doesn't mean
that there actually is a virus there.

PDF files can contain viruses? I thought only .exe, .bat, .pif, .scr, .vbs,
office files (macros) and zip files (if they contain the previous) could be
viruses.